Tuesday, February 26, 2008

RICK ROCAMORA has won awards for his images and picture stories from Asian American Journalist Association, SF Bay Area Press Photographers Association, New California Media, Media Alliance; he was awarded a California Arts Council Art Fellowship and a Local Bay Area Heroes Award from KQED and Union Bank of California for his work about Filipino WW II Veterans. His work is widely exhibited in national and international museums and galleries. His work is part of a collection of American arts most recently exhibited at the Court of Saint James in the United Kingdom and the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. His work is included in the traveling exhibition “Points of Entry-A Nation of Strangers,” which was exhibited at the Smithsonian, Center for Photographic Arts, Museum of Photographic Arts, and other venues. His images are part of “Pork and Perks - Corruption and Governance in the Philippines” a National Book Award winner in the Philippines in 1994. “Second-Class Veterans” a film produced by Don Young that profiled Rocamora’s undying efforts to document the day-to-day lives of Filipino veterans was broadcast on PBS stations in 2003 and 2004. His book about Filipino WWII veterans, "America's Second-Class Veterans" is scheduled for publication before the end of 2008. He is also working on a project about Muslim-Americans after 9/11.

Photo-Documentary Projects

Muslim-Americans - Living with Freedom and Fear in America

Filipino World War II Veterans - AMERICA'S SECOND-CLASS VETERANS

LUNDZI KIYA MALONGA

Unbroken Spirit - Muslim Filipinos in time of War

MANILA'S INVISIBLE CHILDREN

CUBA SI!

San Salvador..City Under Siege

Exhibitions

Unbroken Spirit - Muslim Filipinos in a time of war, PUSOD, Berkeley, CA

Lundzi Kiya Malonga - Studio One, Oakland, CA

Points of Entry - A Nation of Strangers - Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego

Freedom and Fear - Bay Area Muslims after 9/11 - San Francisco City Hall

Exhibition - Its About Time - National Japanese American Historical Society

Book Project - Pork and other Perks - Corruption and Governance in the Philippines - Phil. Center for Investigative Journalism

Book Project - What it took me to get here - Young writers on a journey through life -SF Writers Corps

Book Project - Driving While Black or Brown -ACLU of Northern California

Book Project - Caught in a Backlash - ACLU of Northern California

RICK ROCAMORA SHORT VIDEOS

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Documentary Film - Web Documentary Projects

Web Documentary - TRACKED ON AMERICA - ACLU of Northern California

Film Documentary - SECOND CLASS VETERANS - Produced by Donald Young and Vida Benavides @2002 TRT:30minutes - Profiles Filipino photographer Rick Rocamora and his tireless effort to document and reveal the stories of Filipino World War II veterans. - www.asianamericanmedia.org